Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 104

Shivering with the cold rain, the wanderer hastened to the house of Adam Neubauer, which, by the flashes of the lightning, he had long perceived in the distance.

Who acts: lightning · What happens: shiver, hasten, perceive, flash · To what, where: wanderer, house

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 rain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rain	amod
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shivering	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanderer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wanderer	det
8	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	conj
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wanderer	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hastened	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Neubauer	case
14	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Neubauer	compound
15	Neubauer	Neubauer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 perceived	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 perceived	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 which	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 flashes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flashes	det
21	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 which	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lightning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lightning	det
24	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flashes	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 which	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 perceived	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 perceived	aux
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 perceived	advmod
29	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wanderer	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 distance	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 distance	det
32	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 perceived	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Shivering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shiver	gerund				with the cold rain and the wanderer	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hasten	participle		the wanderer not said here	the house of Adam Neubauer		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
3	perceive	past · perfect · passive		the wanderer		in the distance; long property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	flash		the lightning				nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 104